Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - Libros -  - 9798684987427 - 28 de enero de 2021
En caso de que portada y título no coincidan, el título será el correcto

Heart of Darkness

Book Excerpt: ...pree on shore suffices to unfold for him the secret of a whole continent, and generally he finds the secret not worth knowing. The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut. But Marlow was not typical (if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted), and to him the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze, in the likeness of one of these misty halos that sometimes are made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine. His remark did not seem at all surprising. It was just like Marlow. It was accepted in silence. No one took the trouble to grunt even; and presently he said, very slow--"I was thinking of very old times, when the Romans first came here, nineteen hundred years ago--the other day. . . . Light came out of this river since--you say Knights? Yes; but it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clou...

Medios de comunicación Libros     Paperback Book   (Libro con tapa blanda y lomo encolado)
Publicado 28 de enero de 2021
ISBN13 9798684987427
Páginas 78
Dimensiones 152 × 229 × 4 mm   ·   117 g
Lengua Inglés  

Mas por Joseph Conrad

Mostrar todo

Más de esta serie